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Karpos Skopje

Sekspirova bb Skopje, Macedonia

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Border Crossings and Far Too Many Statues

A travel blog entry by nick_collins8

... bus and start talking in Macedonian, and a few people get off. Thought they must be going to the toilet or something, but I figured out after a while that it was the people with luggage and they were getting off to take their bags to be inspected. So I had to jump off and carry mine over which was probably weird enough. But then the border people just start talking amongst themselves and glancing over at me. I was just hanging around and sitting on my bag having ...

Day Twelve and Thirteen

A travel blog entry by stigandwally

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... It was lovely to spend the evening relaxing in the sun by the pool and having been in a carnivore’s paradise for the last few days, Vicky was excited to get her fix of fish and vegetables. However, the political problems within Greece were clear to see. We were intrigued to see visual evidence of this in the form of a blocade. We couldn’t work out what all the taxis were doing in one place, or why they had removed their ...

Episode 24

A travel blog entry by overlandlyn2010

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... like the large leaf variety that was grown in Australia or Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Apart from the drying racks in the fields we also saw the leaves strung out on rope and hung along the sides of the houses in some small villages. We later learnt that most of this tobacco is bought by Phillip Morris.

From Prilep we headed towards Skopje the capital of Macedonia, where we were to met with another couch surfing contact. We climbed over yet another pass and ...

Day 59 - Prizren to Skopje

A travel blog entry by fcardoso

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Distance: 111.09 km

Average speed: 14.7 km/h

Moving time: 7h32min

Total altitude height: 1271 m

Today I had to climb again up to 1500 m to reach the border of Kosovo with Macedonia. Then the stage was flat but with a lot of wind against!!! ...

Skopje

A travel blog entry by elohim

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I rent an apartment in the center with view to Alexander square. It was rent by skopjeapartments.com Given the price, the quality was really lousy, the equipment truly outdated. The rent includes a cleaning every second day. Anyways, the view from above on the internationally widely questioned construction site of Alexander square ...